Margarita Mavromichalis speaks five languages and studied translation and interpreting. She likes to think that photography is her second language, as it’s a universal language, one that is understood all across the world and conveys messages in the most powerful way.
Margarita moved to New York in 2009. She continued her studies for three years at the International Center of Photography where she also served as a Teaching Assistant for several classes. In 2014 she moved back to Greece where she devoted most of her work covering the refugee crisis as it developed on the island of Lesvos.
Margarita is mostly attracted to street photography and the elements that evoke emotions and surprise in our everyday life. Furthermore, she is passionate about documenting current events that she feels very strongly about, highlighting their social impact. Her work has been displayed in exhibitions in New York, Boston, San Diego, The Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Historical Society and most recently in Budapest, Athens, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and London. Selected images are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Historical Society.
She is the winner of the 9th Pollux Awards (2016), winner of the 12th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (2018), finalist at the Miami Street Photography Festival (2018 and 2020), was nominated for the 2019 Prix Pictet Hope Award and was recently awarded the 15th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (2020). In 2021, she won a Gold Medal at the Budapest International Foto Awards, a Silver Medal at the Prix de la Photographie Paris and is an official selection and top 5 at the Tokyo International Foto Awards.
the pic of the index is by Regula Tschumi